The Disintegration of Autonomy: Jill Johnston’s Anti-criticism

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Standard

The Disintegration of Autonomy : Jill Johnston’s Anti-criticism. / Sandström, Frida.

Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School. ed. / Christine A. Payne; Jeremiah Morelock. Leiden : Brill, 2023. p. 162-192 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Vol. 271).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Harvard

Sandström, F 2023, The Disintegration of Autonomy: Jill Johnston’s Anti-criticism. in CA Payne & J Morelock (eds), Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School. Brill, Leiden, Studies in Critical Social Sciences, vol. 271, pp. 162-192. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004686830_009

APA

Sandström, F. (2023). The Disintegration of Autonomy: Jill Johnston’s Anti-criticism. In C. A. Payne, & J. Morelock (Eds.), Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School (pp. 162-192). Brill. Studies in Critical Social Sciences Vol. 271 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004686830_009

Vancouver

Sandström F. The Disintegration of Autonomy: Jill Johnston’s Anti-criticism. In Payne CA, Morelock J, editors, Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School. Leiden: Brill. 2023. p. 162-192. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Vol. 271). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004686830_009

Author

Sandström, Frida. / The Disintegration of Autonomy : Jill Johnston’s Anti-criticism. Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School. editor / Christine A. Payne ; Jeremiah Morelock. Leiden : Brill, 2023. pp. 162-192 (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Vol. 271).

Bibtex

@inbook{c0ff8a6cc19c4b358df8d6728b95b66c,
title = "The Disintegration of Autonomy: Jill Johnston{\textquoteright}s Anti-criticism",
abstract = "On May 21, 1969, American cultural critic Jill Johnston organizes the publicpanel “The Disintegration of a Critic,” at Loeb Student Centre at New YorkUniversity, a location used frequently by the ongoing student and new leftmovement, as in the case of the Angry Arts Week in 1967.1 In her press releasefor the panel, which was the third in a series of panels on dance and citique,Johnston describes the program as a “final solution to a personal problem whichI would hope to have some effect on all those caught in a similar trap if indeedthey see it that way” (Johnston 2019 [1969]: 194). She furthermore explicatesthe intent to offer her name “as a sort of sacrifice [...] of a disintegration of crit-icism,” which she views as an “outmoded form of communication.” This kindof communication, Johnston makes clear, is a question of the critic{\textquoteright}s alienationof the artist, and vice versa. Furthermore, she underscores the problem withthe modern concept of history, and how it is {\textquoteleft}imposed{\textquoteright} on people by meansof domination from transcendent, critical subjects – including herself. ",
author = "Frida Sandstr{\"o}m",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1163/9789004686830_009",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004686717",
series = "Studies in Critical Social Sciences",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "162--192",
editor = "Payne, {Christine A.} and Jeremiah Morelock",
booktitle = "Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School",
address = "Netherlands",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Disintegration of Autonomy

T2 - Jill Johnston’s Anti-criticism

AU - Sandström, Frida

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - On May 21, 1969, American cultural critic Jill Johnston organizes the publicpanel “The Disintegration of a Critic,” at Loeb Student Centre at New YorkUniversity, a location used frequently by the ongoing student and new leftmovement, as in the case of the Angry Arts Week in 1967.1 In her press releasefor the panel, which was the third in a series of panels on dance and citique,Johnston describes the program as a “final solution to a personal problem whichI would hope to have some effect on all those caught in a similar trap if indeedthey see it that way” (Johnston 2019 [1969]: 194). She furthermore explicatesthe intent to offer her name “as a sort of sacrifice [...] of a disintegration of crit-icism,” which she views as an “outmoded form of communication.” This kindof communication, Johnston makes clear, is a question of the critic’s alienationof the artist, and vice versa. Furthermore, she underscores the problem withthe modern concept of history, and how it is ‘imposed’ on people by meansof domination from transcendent, critical subjects – including herself.

AB - On May 21, 1969, American cultural critic Jill Johnston organizes the publicpanel “The Disintegration of a Critic,” at Loeb Student Centre at New YorkUniversity, a location used frequently by the ongoing student and new leftmovement, as in the case of the Angry Arts Week in 1967.1 In her press releasefor the panel, which was the third in a series of panels on dance and citique,Johnston describes the program as a “final solution to a personal problem whichI would hope to have some effect on all those caught in a similar trap if indeedthey see it that way” (Johnston 2019 [1969]: 194). She furthermore explicatesthe intent to offer her name “as a sort of sacrifice [...] of a disintegration of crit-icism,” which she views as an “outmoded form of communication.” This kindof communication, Johnston makes clear, is a question of the critic’s alienationof the artist, and vice versa. Furthermore, she underscores the problem withthe modern concept of history, and how it is ‘imposed’ on people by meansof domination from transcendent, critical subjects – including herself.

UR - https://brill.com/display/title/69331

U2 - 10.1163/9789004686830_009

DO - 10.1163/9789004686830_009

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9789004686717

T3 - Studies in Critical Social Sciences

SP - 162

EP - 192

BT - Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School

A2 - Payne, Christine A.

A2 - Morelock, Jeremiah

PB - Brill

CY - Leiden

ER -

ID: 384961302